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ICT-WEB Alert
March 2009
- Open J-Gate
Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open
access domain. Launched in 2009, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India)
Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions
of journal articles available online. It is also a database of journal
literature, indexed from more than 3000 open access journals, with links to
full text at Publisher sites. More than 300000 new articles added every year.
Full-text links are regularly validated.
The Open J-Gate site is updated every day. It indexes more than 3000
articles from academic, research and industry journals. More than 1500 of them
are peer-reviewed scholarly journals. This database allows various search
options for the user’s convenience. The subscriber can search by
Title, Author, Abstract, Authors’ Address/Institution, Keywords, etc. And
users can also browse the TOC of latest issue and the back issues.
- National
Knowledge Commission
National Knowledge Commission was established on 13th June 2005 and given a
timeframe of three years from 2nd October 2005 to 2nd October 2008 to achieve
its objectives. National Knowledge Commission focuses on certain key areas
that can help India achieve its goal. These include education, science and
technology, agriculture, industry, and e-governance. Broadly speaking, India
needs to become a globally recognised player in the creation, application
and dissemination of knowledge.
The methodology of the Commission is to form Working Groups within each of
its focus areas and make concrete proposals for reform directly to the Prime
Minister through a series of White Papers. This task involves working in close
collaboration with Central and State governments, professionals, academics,
scientists, regulatory bodies, national think-tanks, industry representatives,
civil society organisations etc.
- Council for
Biotechnology Information
The Council for Biotechnology
Information (CBI) is a coalition of six of the world?s leading biotechnology
companies and two trade associations. Its mission is to improve understanding
and acceptance of biotechnology by collecting and communicating science-based
information through a variety of channels.The website provides information
about the role of biotechnology in agriculture and farming, benefits and
safety of agricultural and food biotechnology.
- DeveloperWorks- Linux
[IBM's technical resource for developers]
developerWorks is IBM's website with
technical resource for developers. It provides information and educational
materials on a wide range of tools such as DB2, eServer, Lotus, Rational,
Tivoli and WebSphere, open standards technology such as web services,
wireless, Linux, XML, Java technologies and so on. It offers resources such as
downloads, trials, white papers, how-to articles, tutorials, news, discussion
forums and webcasts. Information provided also includes how to customize,
build and install new kernels and kernel modules.
- ITJobsWatch
[A perspective on the prevailing IT jobs market conditions]
ITJobsWatch provides a unique
perspective on the prevailing IT jobs market conditions. It provides
information on how various IT skills interrelate, the IT skills needed for
certain jobs, popular IT skills within specific regions and locations, the IT
job market information including the level of demand for certain IT skills, a
guide to the average salary and contractor rates offered. The information
presented is an aggregate of the past 3 months to the last update date. A
comparison to the same period last year is also provided. The data is based on
the recruitment advertisements on the Internet and the press.
- Natural Resources
Database (NRDB) - Free GIS for developing countries
NRDB is a free GIS tool for
developing and distributing environmental databases. Its aim is to provide
people in developing countries with a powerful yet simple tool to assist in
the managing of their own resources. The database structure consists of
relational and hierarchical features and attributes. NRDB is also a
time-series database, all data has a date associated with it. The users can
therefore observe changes over time in the data. All data for the NRDB is
stored in a single database file which can be redistributed with the software.
NRDB software can assist with the following tasks - recording species and
habitat data, monitoring the effect of management and impacts on environmental
resources, collating information on environmental management and organisations,
storing socio-economic information spatially, production of thematic maps of
environmental concerns to assist in advocacy work, as a tool for training in
environmental management and spatial mapping. The software should run on most
Windows-based computers and requires only standard desktop peripherals such as
a scanner and a printer.
- New Semiconductor
Materials Archive
This is an electronic archive by
Ioffe Institute, one of Russia?s largest institutions for research in physics
and technology. It intends to systematize parameters of semiconductor
compounds and heterostructures based on them and thereby provide the
physicists, both theoreticians and experimentalists, a tool to rapidly
retrieve the semiconducting material parameters they are interested in. The
archive covers both the known and new semiconducting compounds. It provides
band, optical, electrical, mechanical, thermal and other properties of metals,
oxides, silicides and other materials.
- Platonic
Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia (PRIME)
Platonic Realms Interactive
Mathematics Encyclopaedia (PRIME) is a sponsored interactive web-based
dictionary of mathematics. The user can browse entries by subject - basic
maths, algebra, analysis, biography, calculus, computer science, discrete
mathematics, economics, geometry, graph theory, history, foundations, number
theory, physical science, statistics, topology, trigonometry. The
encyclopaedia is continually building and allows users to submit definitions.
Caters to both beginners and advanced maths
- Portable, Extensible
Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc)
PETSc, the Portable, Extensible
Toolkit for Scientific computation, is a suite of uni- and parallel-processor
codes for solving large-scale problems modeled by partial differential
equations. PETSc employs the MPI standard for all message-passing
communication. The code is written in a data-structure-neutral manner to
enable easy reuse and flexibility. PETSc has been used for a variety of
large-scaled applications in a wide range of areas such as nano-simulations,
biology, cardiology, imaging and surgery, fusion, geosciences, environmental
sciences, computational fluid dynamics, wave propagation, optimization. The
current version of PETSc, released February 2009 is 2.3.1. Available at the
site are links to download, features, documentation, tutorials, FAQ,
applications, publications etc.
- Science
and Engineering Indicators (SEI) [By National Science Foundation,
USA]
"Science and Engineering
Indicators (SEI) is first and foremost, a volume of record comprising the
major high quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and
engineering enterprise. SEI is factual and policy-neutral. It does not offer
policy options and it does not make policy recommendations. SEI employs a
variety of presentational styles?tables, figures, narrative text, bulleted
text, web-based links, highlights, introductions, conclusions, reference
lists? to make the data accessible to readers with different information needs
and different information processing preferences". SEI is prepared by the
National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS)
on behalf of the National Science Board.
- Science
and Visualization Challenge
Pictures and Graphics enrich the
research communications by illustratiting several ideas and concepts even in
cases where the words fail. It is a necessity for proper understanding of a
concept. With the popularisation of TV and the Internet, as well as
availability of animation tools, there is an increasing tilt towards the
graphics-oriented culture. To highlight the usage of graphics and also to
encourage its usage, the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA and the
Science, conduct Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Winners will
be selected in each of these five categories: photographs, illustrations,
informational graphics, interactive media and non-interactive media. The
winners will be published in a special section of the September 22, 2009 issue
of the journal Science and Science Online and on the NSF website. Entries for
2009 are being solicited now and NSF invites all researchers and science
communicators to participate in this unique and inspiring competition. Other
details regarding the contest are available at the website.
- Web Design
Reference Site
This site is dedicated to providing
knowledge of web design and development. It advocates accessibility,
usability, web standards and many related topics. It provides news and
information of web design and development theory and methods. It covers a wide
range of topics covered such as accessibility, cascading style sheets,
evaluation & testing, information architecture, JavaScript, navigation,
labelling, standards, typography,usability and XML. It provides uasage tips
and learning materials for Dreamweaver, Flash, PHP etc.
- WHAT IF web
interface [A molecular modelling package]
WHAT IF is a versatile molecular
modelling package that is specialized on working with proteins and the
molecules in their environment like water, ligands, nucleic acids, etc. The
program provides numerous options in fields as diverse as homology modelling,
drug docking, electrostatics calculations, structure validation and
visualisation. The work earlier was in EMBL Heidelberg, and presently the
continuation is at the CMBI of the Radboud University Nijmegen.
- World
Wind [Windows software for Landsat satellite imagery]
World Wind lets the users zoom from
satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite
imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, it provides a realtime
visual experience of Earth terrain. World Wind is open source Windows
software. Latest version available is 1.3.
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